Hi there 👋 - I'm Luca Parolari, a PhD student at the University of Padova (Italy) as part of the Visual Intelligence and Machine Perception (VIMP) group.

I primarily work in medical imaging for computer-aided diagnosis, specifically in polyp tracking and re-identification in colonoscopy videos. I've previously worked on generative AI for dataset generation and visual grounding. I have a deep fascination with astronomy.

• L. Parolari, A. Cherubini, L. Ballan, C. Biffi. Temporally-Aware Supervised Contrastive Learning for Polyp Counting in Colonoscopy. In International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2025, Daejoon, South Corea. 2025. [paper]
• E. Izzo, L. Parolari, D. Vezzarro, L. Ballan. 7Bench: a Comprehensive Benchmark for Layout-guided Text-to-image Models. In International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP) 2025, Rome, Italy. 2025. [paper]
• L. Parolari, A. Cherubini, L. Ballan, C. Biffi. Towards Polyp Counting In Full-Procedure Colonoscopy Videos. In International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2025, Houston, USA. 2025. [paper][code]
• L. Parolari, E. Izzo, L. Ballan. Harlequin: Annotation-driven Generation of Synthetic Data for Referring Expression Comprehension. In International Conference in Patter Recognition (ICPR) 2024, Kolkata, India. 2024. [paper][short][code]
• D. Rigoni, L. Parolari, L. Serafini, A. Sperduti, L. Ballan. Weakly-Supervised Visual-Textual Grounding with Semantic Prior Refinement. In British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2023, Aberdeen, UK. 2023. [paper] [code]

• PhD Student · University of Padova · Padova, Italy · 11/2023–current
• Research Fellow · University of Padova · Padova, Italy · 12/2022–10/2023
• AI Software Engineer · Orobix · Bergamo, Italy · 01/2022–11/2022
• CS Teacher · "Camillo Golgi" High School · Breno (BS), Italy · 11/2019–06/2021
• Software Engineer · freelance · 2016-2019

• Ph.D. in Brain, Mind and Computer Science, University of Padova, Italy · 2023-current
• M.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Padova, Italy · 2019-2021
• B.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Parma, Italy · 2016-2019